Alexei Rodriguez presenting at PLMCE13

During the Percona Live MySQL Community Event this year we had the pleasure of Alexei Rodriguez discussing why Evernote uses Percona’s Private Custom MySQL Training. Alexei is VP of operations there and you can watch a video of his presentation on YouTube.

Alexei said he values having Percona tailor training to their needs, the expert delivery by our practitioner-trainers, and the ability to speak freely about operational issues during private training.

If you would like to talk with our team about private custom training, please contact Sally Martinez at (855) 55TRAIN or
(925) 271-5054, or via e-mail at sally.martinez@percona.com.

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Analyzing SQL Queries with Percona Toolkit, Feb. 25-28, 9-11 a.m. PST

Next week I’m teaching an online Percona Training class, called Analyzing SQL Queries with Percona Toolkit.  This is a guided tour of best practices for pt-query-digest, the best tool for evaluating where your database response time is being spent.

This month we saw the GA release of MySQL 5.6, and I wanted to check if any improvement has been made to the slow query log in table format.  Users of some MySQL appliances like Amazon RDS must use table logs, since they can’t access the file-based logs on the server.

I read the logging …

Now that we are in the New Year, it is time to settle back into work and make plans for 2013. As part of your professional development planning, consider Percona MySQL Training.

Percona will be holding the following MySQL Training classes in the first quarter:

• January
  • Live Virtual Training – DBA Training for MySQL: January 7-10, 2013
  • Chicago, Illinois, USA : January 14-17, 2013
  • London, UK: January 14-17, 2013
• February
  • Frankfurt, DE: February 4-7, 2013
  • San Francisco, CA, USA: February 4-7, 2013
• March
  • New York, NY, USA: March 11-14, 2013

To view these training events, and others, go to percona.com/training.